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Is The Standard “a mouthpiece for Labour”?
Lynn Prentice keeps adamantly denying that his Standard blog is a mouthpiece for Labour. Technically he’s probably correct – but there’s no doubt many mouths of Labour are active at The Standard. The...
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Apology to Stephanie
On the previous post Is The Standard “a mouthpiece for Labour”? I criticised The Standard for what I felt was inadequate disclosure statements about the authors. Authors aren’t identified and don’t...
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Prentice proves himself wrong, and more
Ok, I know this sort of post bores the hell out of some people but I like to put things like this on record so that next time people like Lynn Prentice try to claim I have lied it’s easy for me to...
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What now for waitresses and waiters?
Now that John Key seems to have adequately dealt with his hair pulling embarrassment what now for the focus of the issue, the way waiting staff are treated by customers and by employers? One waitress...
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If more people get angry how will the world change?
Will getting angry change the world? In some ways it can. There’s been a few angry revolutions that have precipitated major change. Some of that change has been for the better, eventually. And some to...
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Māori versus the environmental lobby
More on the lack of consultation with Māori, who have existing rights granted under a Treaty of Waitangi settlement, over the proposed Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary, and the reality that environmental...
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Blog moderation and hypocrisy
There’s been a bit of a spat on Twitter about lack of moderation at Kiwiblog, with a number of people joining criticism of David Farrar’s hands off approach to moderation. It’s well known that Kiwiblog...
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No surplus?
Stephanie Rodgers claims that the surplus announced yesterday is not actually a surplus – because, she says, the Government should have spent more so there wouldn’t be a surplus. There is no surplus In...
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Civil war at The Standard
There has been a civil war amongst authors at The Standard today, escalating to the extent that one moderator has banned another – which is kind of funny to me because both of them were happy to have...
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